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Lois Lowry

Author, The Giver and Number the Stars

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Their 2015 r/books AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 1 post and 63 comments from u/Lois-Lowry, all from 2015, most often in r/books.

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A redditor wrote in r/books

On “Hi reddit! I am Lois Lowry, author of The Giver - AMA!”

Hello! First off, the Giver is probably one of my favorite dystopian books and I absolutely loved the concepts. I read this in school and the teacher made us ask questions about it, so here are the two I remember: Do they have money in the Giver society? How did the loose…

u/Lois-Lowry replied

Nope, no money in the world of THE GIVER. I tried to et rid of everything that causes problems in our world. Money was top of the list!

Lore answerAnswering the lore questionsr/books · 115 points as of Nov 2026Full thread ↗

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A redditor wrote in r/books

On “Hi reddit! I am Lois Lowry, author of The Giver - AMA!”

I'm 35 and I still regard Number the Stars as one of my favorite books. It's stuck with me for that long. It also was one of the first things that really made me understand how different lives can be and opened my eyes to the outside world. My question: how much of that book is…

u/Lois-Lowry replied

That book is entirely based on facts. Yes, even the dogs and the handkerchief. The characters are fictional...but they follow very closely the lives of actually Danes at the time.

Lore answerAnswering the lore questionsr/books · 218 points as of Nov 2026Full thread ↗
A redditor wrote in r/books

On “Hi reddit! I am Lois Lowry, author of The Giver - AMA!”

Hi Lois! Big fan here. I ghostwrite children's fiction and YA books for a living, and can't help but be dismayed at some of the low literary standards in the field. It seems like every other sentence involves a character nodding, or shooting someone a glance, or some boilerplate…

u/Lois-Lowry replied

Interesting, and funny, question. I cringe when someone writes in the first person, therefore can't figure out how to describe the narrator, and so has them look into a mirror. "She gazed at her deep blue eyes and her dark…

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Interesting, and funny, question. I cringe when someone writes in the first person, therefore can't figure out how to describe the narrator, and so has them look into a mirror. "She gazed at her deep blue eyes and her dark red slightly curling hair..." But I know I have made many such bumbling mistakes myself.